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NYTimes Looks at Warez
Flamerule writes "The New York Times has a new article up that relates the end result of the DrinkorDie copyright infringement case (the "ringleader" and 5 other guys are in prison), and talks about warez in general. They at least tried to get a story from both software companies and denizens of the warez scene. Pretty interesting stuff, even if you haven't been following the case closely."
Anyone knows an FTP site when I can download Linux Warez? K Tnx!
Forget this registering for an account at the NYTimes! Time to go post and ask if anyone has any cracked versions of it! hehe ;)
"PC Load Letter? What the $@#% does that mean?!"
Last week, at age 29, John Sankus Jr. moved out of his parents' house for the first time.
Wait, a warez d00d aged 29 still living at home? NO WAY. This totally shatters my image of them.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
D000d, I hear ya! There's this sweet Jag that I jacked last year, but I've only driven it twice, and once was just down to the Circle-K ya know? That was NOT worth the hefty ($60 G's!) price tag associated with it, although I'd've probably payed $50.
Leader of an international warez group... works as a gateway tech. Priceless :)
Simple. Make fixing bugs illegal...oh, wait, MS is already working on that ;-)
.Information doesn't want to be anything
Wow .. sorry .. I just realized that i probally broke Taco's record for the number of gross-mispellings in a single post.
:(
My bad
--Ne auderis delere orbem rigidum meum, non erravi pernicose!
Ok, this is offtopic so mod to your heart's content, but I love to tell the story so I'm gonna
I friend of mine back in the BBS day had always steered clear of guessing MCI codes for fear of getting busted. Lots of people we knew were doing it, and had been for a long time without any problem, so finally someone talked him into running a kind of war dialer to find MCI codes. He gets the program, finds a local MCI dialup number on a BBS and sets it to run overnight.
Sadly, the dialup that he finds is an FBI plant -- they had been trying to get some big-time LD thiefs in the area and my buddy stumbled into the sting.
His computer was a flaky old Apple II, which didn't quite run before the CPU warmed up a bit. The way he booted it was to turn it on, wait a few seconds, then hit the red button connected to a non-maskable-interrupt card (NMI cards, ahh the memories!) to restart, and repeat the cylce until it worked.
So these two FBI goons greet him at his door, and ask to see the computer. He shows them the computer on his desk, and they ask him to turn it on. As he's reaching for the red button, he notices that the two goons have shoved their hands inside their jackets, just shy of drawing guns on this dorky kid, and ask him "just WHAT does that button do?!?"
To this day we can't figure out what they hell they THOUGHT it was going to do. (release the hounds!)
Ironically, what if this guy had been playing something like Rainbow 6 as his house was raided!
Her middle name is eight? She's 31337 too!
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